<p>I mean writing/history/lit by the word “humanities”.</p>
<p>If the kind of attitude you speak with in your last post comes through in your application or teacher recommendations, it is not very likely that Caltech will admit you. In a sense, you are right about high school. The work is mostly easy and smart kids don’t really need to do the homework. But if you were to be admitted and come to Tech with that kind of attitude, you would fail out quite quickly. The stuff here WILL be too hard to learn without working your hardest, and so your mindset of “I’m so smart I don’t need to work much” is a recipe for failure. Admissions knows this and is very very cautious about admitting anyone with that attitude.</p>
<p>Maybe the easiest way to put it is this: Caltech gets applications from kids who are smarter than you AND take school more seriously. They’ve got a far better chance. Maybe I’m misreading, but it seems you view your laziness as an asset or an indication of your intelligence, and you should probably get over that.</p>
<p>If you want to continue blowing off work and doing well, go to your state school and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES come anywhere near Caltech.</p>
<p>But if you do end up getting into Caltech (a fairly big if), one thing you can be virtually assured of is that you will stop being a lazy person. :-)</p>